Noran is the Director of Marketing at BoostCTR and an Associate Instructor of the Master Certification Conversion Optimization course at MarketMotive. She specializes in analyzing the PPC customer Journey, creating buyer momentum and optimizing their experience from click to conversion. Her passion for understanding today's customer is a key driver to her analysis of industry trends and keeping up with the latest in PPC, voice of customer, analytics and conversion optimization.
In addition to writing for publications such as SES Magazine and ClickZ, Noran is also a frequent speaker at the Search Engine Strategies conferences, the Internet Marketing Conference and the Online Marketing Summit.
When Noran is not online, she is either traveling or diving with sharks in the Red Sea.
TV or Mass Media ads create awareness and possible interest, so PPC, display or Facebook ads should pick up where the other ads leave off. But they can’t pick up anything unless they also carry a "scent trail" of keywords, terminology, and imagery.
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When writing a PPC ad, when should your PPC copy create a powerful mental image of the product or service’s end benefit, and when should you focus on establishing credibility and addressing concerns about the path to achieving that benefit?
Testing and optimizing ads is critical for successful companies. So with a myriad of available tools and education, what’s stopping us from doing so on a regular basis? Here are six elements start your PPC ad testing and optimization journey.
When it comes to gut feel, creating vivid mental images and positive associations with your ad copy starts to carry the day. It’s the subtleties of mental images and emotional associations that determine winning and losing PPC ads.
When optimizing a PPC ad, many changes that seem minor from a surface level, like switching placement of phrases, swapping out single words, or tweaking verbiage, can in fact represent a major change in terms of psychology and emotional impact.
If your Facebook ads could talk, they’d probably scream “LOOK AT ME!” But they can’t, leaving it up to you to do a good job of grabbing as much attention as possible. Here are four elements to help you create visually stunning Facebook ads.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. So when you’re stuck with a 160 character limit in a Facebook ad, use a great image to grab attention and tell the rest of your story. here are 4 tips to help you find the best images for your ads.
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Ad fatigue is the most common problem in Facebook advertising, so you need to stock-pile multiple good ideas for ads to test and rotate in to maintain a certain level of “freshness”. If you want to see impressive results, it’s time to get creative.
It’s psychological change in the prospect, not the physical change in the ad, that’s important to results. Always make sure you’re cycling in both fresh rewrites and tweaks for your PPC ads to make sure they reach their optimal performance.